Mississippi: Act of Savagery

"A moderate in Natchez," Negro Comedian
Dick Gregory once said, "is a white man who hangs a nigger from a low
tree." Though Gregory is a master of bitter hyperbole, there was no
exaggeration in his description as far as one Wharlest Jackson, 36, was
concerned last week. Jackson had the sort of background designed to
infuriate Natchez-style moderates, not to mention extremists. He had
been treasurer of the Natchez branch of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People. He had actively participated in a
boycott of white stores that followed the bombing of another Natchez
N.A.A.C.P....